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Population Census 2001, Jamaica - IPUMS Subset

Jamaica, 2001
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JAM_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistical Institute of Jamaica, IPUMS
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Type of economic activity (JM2001A_CLASSWK)

Data file: JAM2001_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 292
End: 292
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="JM01A449 JM01A450 JM01A451 JM01A452 JM01A453 JM01A454 JM01A455 JM01A456 JM01A457 JM01A458 JM01A459 JM01A460 JM01A461 JM01A462">[Questions 4.1 - 4.8 for persons age 14 and older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="JM01A454"><span class="em">4.6 Which of the following categories best describes your/the respondent's] main employment?</span><br /><div class="i1">Read categories<br /><br />[] 1 Paid government employee<br />[] 2 Paid employee in a private enterprise<br />[] 3 Paid employee in a private home<br />[] 4 Unpaid employee in agriculture or in any other type of business<br />[] 5 Self-employed with employees<br />[] 6 Self-employed without employees<br />[] 7 Other<br />[] 9 Not stated</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Paid government employee
2 Paid employee in private enterprise
3 Paid employee in private home
4 Unpaid employee
5 Self-employed with employees
6 Self-employed without employees
7 Other
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent’s type of economic activity.
Universe
Jamaica 2001: Persons age 14+ who either worked at least one hour, with or without pay, or had a job but did not work during the previous week [discrepancies: type I .4%; type II none]

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